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Mushrooms - First Time - A Little Scary

sillynoob

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I tried mushrooms for the first time a few months ago. This was my second psychedelic drug, I used DOB once before.

A friend and I bought some dry mushrooms. Divided it up and I took 1/8th, 1 cap and the rest stems. My friend threw up almost immediately (within about 10 minutes of eating them), he is an experienced mushroom user.
The two of us went on a walk after about 20 minutes to go to the park, we made it just onto the road and it was great. The sun was shining bright, and every step i took a new pattern of colors shot down the road. I was amazed and very happy.
We didn't make it much further when we decided we were gonna fry hard and should just go back.
Walking up to the house the porch looked like it was melting, and i just sat there staring at it. When we walked in we both sat down on a couch, it looked like my friend sank into it. This was when the world started to go away, so it seemed. I sat there watching the wall, there were flowers spinning around all over it and it had me amazed. The whole room started spinning until it was basically not there except what I was looking at directly.
This went away as well, I would look around and could see my friends who were there. I was sitting on the couch, with my sweatshirt hood up and the strings pulled so it was tight over my face. This experience was very intense for a first time user and was scaring me. From this point what I remember is slightly different from what apparently happened in the 'real' world.
I was in a loop, part of it was like an out-of-body experience. I would be sitting on the couch and watch myself stand up out of my body. Then it was like I was back in my body and would walk outside and sit down. Then the next thing I knew I was back on the couch...would get up...etc
After some time I apparently threw up all over the kitchen, and outside.
I remember talking to one of my friends for a little bit, and then I was back in my loop.
The next part is hard to explain accurately.
I had this feeling that I was alone in the universe, and that I had always been the only one to ever exist. I was in a big white space talking to myself, thinking about the people I knew (or had created in my head) Was not fun at all.
Then I was reminded that I took mushrooms and knew that I was just high. At this point I was hoping for that my high was almost over and started looking at clocks all over. Counting the minutes. I remember saying a lot "It's going to be over by 2, the high can only last 4 hours" The minutes went by very slowly. I started thinking that maybe I had taken the mushrooms 30 years ago and that I was still tripping, that none of this was real and I was in an asylum.
I then decided that I was going to kill myself if my high was not over by 2. So I watched the minutes go by, then I had more thoughts, what if time could never reach 2 and I fried forever. I had more suicidal thoughts and then blacked out.
I woke up in my friends car in front of my house. I was still frying, but I was back on earth. My friend I fried with had come down already and said "you don't have to leave"
This was also scary, I thought that if I left the car that my high would end and I'd be ok, but if I stayed that i'd fry forever. I sat there for a minute staring at everyone in the car and then decided that I should go in my house and grab a cigarette then come back.
My high turned good at this point. I remember walking in my house and it was very euphoric. I felt amazing walking in there. I grabbed my cigarette and walked outside. I saw all my friends in the car and they were all staring at me, they all had a cigarette in their mouths and they were smoking like they wanted to look cool. (again, in my head)
I got in the car and we drove around a little, it was fun although I don't remember it well.
I then woke up on my friends couch right around 2 and was mostly back to normal.

This was by far the most intense experience i've had with anything. I wouldn't really recommend anyone with little experience with hallucinogens to eat an 8th of mushrooms, especially ones as potent as these.
I'm still a little scared to do them, but hope to do mushrooms again sometime in the future. A little more prepared though.

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awesome! and what an ending, "this is when..."

what happens next!!! hehe :)

A few things I noticed: a) the 'alone in the universe' feeling: do you think it could suggesting that there is no fundamental division between you and 'reality' - ie you ARE reality, there is no division between yourself and others
b) a repeating aspect in your trip was that when you changed settings your trip changed its tone almost completely ( you ought to pay attention to this and use this to your advantage as a tripping survival skill - sometimes changing the type of music or walking outside or inside (depending) can make a WORLD of difference when you're tripping hard)

peace and happy trailsss!!
samadhi
 
Welcome to the world of psychedelics! Early experiences tend to be very frightening... but try to see that as your ego's grasping for control, and then next time, try to let go of that. Realize there is nothing to fear, let go of yourself and your attachments, and you will see what mushrooms are capable of.

Thanks for sharing! I added your experience level to the title to conform to naming conventions, which helps people search.
 
samadhi_smiles said:
awesome! and what an ending, "this is when..."

what happens next!!! hehe :)

A few things I noticed: a) the 'alone in the universe' feeling: do you think it could suggesting that there is no fundamental division between you and 'reality' - ie you ARE reality, there is no division between yourself and others
b) a repeating aspect in your trip was that when you changed settings your trip changed its tone almost completely ( you ought to pay attention to this and use this to your advantage as a tripping survival skill - sometimes changing the type of music or walking outside or inside (depending) can make a WORLD of difference when you're tripping hard)

peace and happy trailsss!!
samadhi
Sorry, I have no idea what I was going to say after that. haha

That's a really good point, and I'm not sure. I have not spent too much time thinking or talking about my trip. I've wanted to recently though, if I didn't think about the why and how of this trip then i'm sure I wouldn't want to do mushrooms again; would also be missing out on possibly learning new things about myself.

I had noticed that when things changed, who I was around, the lighting, where I was, all of my surroundings seemed to be affecting the trip. (Not during the trip though) Being able to decide, I need to go somewhere else to fry better seems like it would be an acquired skill over several uses.


Xorkoth said:
Welcome to the world of psychedelics! Early experiences tend to be very frightening... but try to see that as your ego's grasping for control, and then next time, try to let go of that. Realize there is nothing to fear, let go of yourself and your attachments, and you will see what mushrooms are capable of.

Thanks for sharing! I added your experience level to the title to conform to naming conventions, which helps people search.
That sounds like a good way to look at it. My biggest problem throughout most of it was letting go and taking the trip. I was too caught up in my own head to let it happen.


Thanks for your advice you guys :D
 
mushrooms are either good or bad, trip wise but always a learning experience don't give up, the poisitive always outways the negative, besides what would life be like without magic?
 
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